Gripping device for buttons or pins



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GRIPPING navxca FOR BUTTONS OR PINS Filedflay 2-1. 1951 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented June 22, 1954 UNITED STATES AT-ENT OFFICE Mickail Platis, Astoria, N. Y., assignor of one-half to Adolph Dick, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application May 21, 1951, Serial No. 227,383

2 Claims.

My invention is an improved holding or fastening device; and particularly a looking or retaining member for securing buttons and other parts to a garment and facilitate the attachment, removal and replacement thereof.

An important object of this invention is to provide a retaining member for the buttons, bars, badges, emblems and other insignia intended for uniforms; but of course the device can be readily used for mounting similar objects on ordinary garments.

A further object is to provide a holding or fastening device which is very efficient in action and can easily be manipulated to engage the object to be amxed to a garment at two or more points, and easily dismounted to release the ob ject if necessary.

These and other objects and advantages are fully described herein, and several embodiments of the improvement are illustrated in the drawings. But variations in structural details can of course be adopted without omission or material alteration of any of the essential characteristics which are defined in the claims.

On said drawings the figure shows a button or the like insigne and a holding or retaining member, with the parts all separated from one another.

As indicated in the figure, my invention is intended to facilitate attaching to a garment an accessory such as a button, that has a convex or bulging top or front part I and a flat rear part 2. The front part is a hollow bowl-shaped element, and the part 2 is a round plate that can be fitted to the top or crown l and secured around the edges in any suitable manner, so that the two parts will be permanently joined together. The back plate 2 has cut out projections or fingers 3 and a central aperture which is in line with an aperture 5 in the crown I when the crown I and back plate 2 are united. In the back plate also are cuts or slits 6 which radiate from the open-- ing 4 and divide the plate 2 into flexible sections 1. To the convex face of the part I I can affix a member 8, which can be a letter, number or other insigne or emblem, having a threaded stud at the center. This stud is inserted into the opening 5 and turned till the threads engage the opening 4 in the back plate to make it fast, and the stud also acts to hold the crown I and back plate 2 in assembled positions.

The button can be finished so as to serve for a uniform or other special dress, and it is put on the garment by first transfixing the projections or fingers 3 through the fabric thereof. The

button is then made fast by a retaining member made up of the parts H, H! and i2, all of the same outline and area. The part it is the bottom plate for the retaining or looking member, and it has apertures 13 to receive the fingers 3. This plate is affixed by suitable means to the part l2 which is the cover, and between the parts [0 and I2 is the part I i, that has the form of a plate with resilient bent tabs l4 cut from the plate H, the tabs l4 having slots l5 through which the fingers 3 are passed; and the tabs M are out free from the plate H at the middle of the plate and along the sides, but are connected to the plate H near its ends and doubled over to project beyond said ends. The top is arched and has a rim I8 and openings I! in the top in line with the slots [5 and apertures I3 in the bottom I 9; the rim [5 making contact with the plate H around the edges thereof. When the parts [0, I! and I?! are assembled they are made fast to one another by suitable means, and the button is afixed to the garment by forcing the fingers 3 through the openings 53 and slots IS in the tabs [4; first piercing the fabric of the garment from the front with the fingers 3. The ends of the tabs 14 project through the apertures H, and the tab-carrying plate l is slotted on three sides of each tab 14 to mark off gripping elements or dogs l3. Recesses 19 are provided at the center of the slots on the inside edges of the plate H for engagement with the fingers 3. When the fingers 3 penetrate the holding member, the fingers are forced by the dogs l8 against the edges of the recesses l4. To release the fingers 3, the tabs 14 are pressed towards each other, lifting the dogs [8 and disengaging them from the fingers 3. Then the button can be detached.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new is:

1. A device for securing to a garment an object having transfixing projections, said device comprising a retaining member to receive said projections, and having a bottom plate with openings for said projections, a second plate on said bottom plate having flexible gripping elements to engage said projections, and tabs attached to said elements and bent outward over the extremities of said plate.

2. The securing device of claim 1 wherein said elements are in the plane of the second plate and secured thereto each at one end adjacent the middle of the second plate; said elements extending towards the extremities of said plate with their opposite ends adjacent said extremities and said openings, said tabs being fixed to said elements adjacent the opposite ends thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date Zacharias Mar. 9, 1875 Blaeske Mar. 28, 1893 Waller- May 21, 1901 Summers Jan. 1, 1907, Reynolds Dec. 7, 1909 Breidenbach Aug. 1, 1916 Abel Apr. 3, 1917 Number Number Name Date Taylor Apr. 24, 1917 Jaffe Sept. 3, 1918 Arkin May 31, 1921 Hardesty May 12, 1931 Murphy Aug. 30, 1938 Jordan Sept. 26, 1944 Winters Apr. 3, 1945 Van Uum 1 Dec. 6, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Switzerland of 1935 

